| CaptainKGL | 28 Jul 2016 1:40 p.m. PST |
I came across a living history museum which has a collection of houses from the 1600s to 1700s. It was interesting because these were salvaged from Europe and brought back to Virginia and rebuilt. You can enter them, meet people doing living history, etc. I immediately thought of wargame terrain and took some pictures of them. British, Irish, German buildings along with some American native and frontier homes. link |
BTCTerrainman  | 28 Jul 2016 2:00 p.m. PST |
Yep about an hour up the road from here. Been there several times. Pretty nice museum. More about how people lived from where they immigrated from and how that impacted what they built and how they lived in colonial America. Still does not replace seeing the real thing though including similar museums in Germany. |
| John Armatys | 28 Jul 2016 2:12 p.m. PST |
For some rather nice (and free!) pdf files of German building see here: link |
| Brad Jenison | 28 Jul 2016 2:16 p.m. PST |
Where exactly is this open air museum? |
| gbowen | 28 Jul 2016 2:24 p.m. PST |
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| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 28 Jul 2016 2:31 p.m. PST |
Yep,Cap has a link on his blog. |
| Timbo W | 28 Jul 2016 2:32 p.m. PST |
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| Legends In Time Skip | 28 Jul 2016 3:07 p.m. PST |
Thank you John Armatys for that link to the pdf files. Very nice buildings. |
| AussieAndy | 28 Jul 2016 3:17 p.m. PST |
Was in Staunton last year, but didn't know about the museum. |
| hmer20 | 29 Jul 2016 5:25 p.m. PST |
We're going to try to go tomorrow, although it appears they're having some sort of conference. |
| 138SquadronRAF | 01 Aug 2016 1:08 p.m. PST |
As an Englishman I'd be interested in there source for the 'pink' English 1/2 timbered building. The ones I'm familiar with are either plastered and painted white (not pink) or brick and timber and the bricks are normally a rustier shade of red. The general shape and appearances of the buildings is correct for England, Ireland and Germany though. Nicely do reconstructions. |
| hmer20 | 02 Aug 2016 3:27 a.m. PST |
138,
I had asked a question about that house and they said they were not 100% sure about how the house originally looked. They said the house had belonged to a upper middle class family so maybe that was a thing with that class. A lot of the buildings are obviously falling apart, the American Indian village was a joke. They were rethatching the Irish buildings so we could not see the inside of those. The employees we got to talk to were knowledgeable of the buildings they were assigned to and friendly. If you're in the area go see it but, I wouldn't make a special trip due to the buildings falling apart. |
paints brigs for the British fleet.
